"Spend quality time with me tonight,"
"I'm going to Europe next week, and I'll take you to buy limited edition items."
He leaned close to her ear, his breath reeking of alcohol on her face.
Yang Ruxuan's body stiffened, but she did not push him away.
My heart is filled with self-loathing.
She knew the true nature of the deal.
They traded their bodies and dignity for material possessions and shelter.
Back in the apartment, she helped Mr. Wang to bed, then went to the living room alone and stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window.
The city below was still brightly lit, but she felt an unprecedented loneliness.
My phone rang; it was a text message notification from the bank.
Mr. Wang transferred 200,000 yuan to her, with the note "pocket money".
She stared at the string of numbers, recalling the 4,500 monthly salary she received during her job interview, and a sense of absurdity welled up within her.
After taking a bath, she stood in front of the mirror, looking at the woman dressed in designer brands and with exquisite makeup.
Suddenly, Yang Ruxuan raised her hand and slapped herself hard across the face.
How could she be so... despicable?
The woman in the mirror had flushed cheeks, but her eyes showed no sign of understanding, only deep weariness.
Yang Ruxuan opened her phone's photo album and looked through photos from a year ago.
At that time, she wore cheap clothes and lived in a cramped rented room, but she was content.
Yang Ruxuan opened another local forum page called "Riders' Home," a gathering place for food delivery workers.
After several weeks of covert observation, she had identified her target.
A user named Xiaofeng, judging from his posts, is a friend of the woman surnamed Qin, and often shares interesting stories about food delivery on the forum.
Yang Ruxuan took a sip of whiskey.
Her fingers paused on the keyboard for a moment.
In the past few weeks, she approached Xiaofeng by claiming to be someone who had been through similar experiences, and fabricated a story about her unpleasant experience working as a nanny at Gujia.
The family-oriented government is a den of wolves, mistreating its nannies in every way.
She closed the forum and opened an encrypted communication software.
This was a one-time anonymous account she specifically purchased, making it impossible to trace her true identity.
*
Zi Xi lay on the soft bed, half asleep.
Just as she was about to drift off to sleep, her phone started vibrating repeatedly beside her pillow.
Who would send a message so late?
She was half asleep when she barely managed to open her eyes and reach for her phone.
Unlocking the screen, several anonymous text messages from unknown numbers immediately came into view.
The sender field displayed a string of garbled numbers, like spam.
But the text message made her frown, and her sleepiness lessened somewhat.
I advise you to leave the Gu family immediately.
[You think the Gu family is some kind of nice place? It looks glamorous on the outside, but it's rotten to the core!]
[Especially that young master of the Gu family, his autism is all a lie!]
He's a complete and utter fanatic! Like many rich young masters, he'll stop at nothing to get what he wants, and then destroy it once he's bored with it!
I am the girl he once abandoned; I'm currently undergoing psychotherapy!
Zi Xi frowned even more, a strange feeling welling up inside her.
She pictured Gu Yanqing wearing a fluffy cat ear headband, awkwardly mimicking a cat's meow.
And his long eyelashes as he leaned on her shoulder and quietly watched the movie.
These images and the image of the paranoid madman in the text message can never be reconciled.
He's just a refined young man with some psychological issues.
Instead of feeling fear, she found it somewhat ridiculous and absurd.
But text messages kept coming in.
[You really think it was just an accident that his caregiver ended up in the nursing home? Knowing too much and being too close leads to that kind of end! You're just his new toy!]
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com